Comments on: Book review – When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:43:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-95121Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:43:00 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-95121[…] managing to keep his tangents contained (there is e.g. only a brief mention of his hobby horse, the Toba eruption). Occasionally he slips a bit, such as a three-page listing of moon deities and other […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-12746Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:13:06 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-12746[…] Johnson. The chapter on volcanism covers the usual suspects, such as the Siberian Traps, the Toba volcano, the Tambora volcano, and the looming threat of the Yellowstone […]

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]]>By: Book review – Volcanotectonics: Understanding the Structure, Deformation and Dynamics of Volcanoes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-11997Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:18:43 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-11997[…] also outlines how particularly catastrophic eruptions (for instance Tambora, Krakatoa, and Toba) resulted from caldera collapses. Here, various dikes join up to form a ring-fault that isolates a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Volcanoes (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-11748Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:38:25 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-11748[…] recounted throughout. This includes those familiar from popular accounts (e.g. Tambora, Laki, and Toba), technical books (e.g. Pinatubo and the Soufrière Hills volcano), and those only known to […]

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]]>By: Book review – End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-10074Sat, 30 May 2020 16:13:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-10074[…] Johnson. The chapter on volcanism covers the usual suspects, such as the Siberian Traps, the Toba volcano, the Tambora volcano, and the looming threat of the Yellowstone […]

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]]>By: Book review – End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-7990Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:17:53 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-7990[…] Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions), the Toba volcano (see my review of When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano), the Tambora volcano (see Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World and Tambora and the Year […]

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]]>By: Book review – Origins: How the Earth Made Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-4184Sun, 26 May 2019 15:19:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-4184[…] Similarly, when he brings up the effects of the Toba eruption on early humans (see my review of When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano), he immediately flags this up as controversial. All this gave me a good feeling about the balance […]

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]]>By: Book review – Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-2364Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:28:02 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-2364[…] he mentions the possible impact on our very early history of the Toba eruption (see my review of When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano) or the question whether the Black Death in 16th-Century Europe was actually caused by bubonic […]

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]]>By: Book review – Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-2100Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:25:58 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-2100[…] the controversial topic of catastrophic volcanic eruptions such as discussed in my review of When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano), talking about effective population sizes and the relative contributions of random genetic drift […]

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]]>By: Book review – End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/12/06/book-review-when-humans-nearly-vanished-the-catastrophic-explosion-of-the-toba-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-1996Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:16:20 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2509#comment-1996[…] impossible to put down. Even the glossary makes for an informative read! When I recently reviewed When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano, another example of a catastrophic explanation for observed extinctions, I mentioned being […]

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